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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
of eight rows. Endlicher, loc. cit., fays, that each cone contains fifteen or fixteen rows of fcales; but this 
is reckoning the fame row twice, when, ffarting from the bafe, it has made the circuit of the cone and 
reappeared at the tip. Within each 
fcale are two feeds, of which the wings 
are about half an inch in length [figs. 8 
to 13] ; the back of the wing is ftraight, 
the front rounded and deeply emar- 
ginate at the bafe near the feed; it is 
light brown with darker ftrise of vary¬ 
ing breadth. The feeds themfelves 
are fmall for the fize of the cone, light 
brown fpeckled with dark brown. 
Hartweg nowhere fpeaks of his 
having: met with Pinus tuberculata, 
although he travelled through the dif- 
tridt where it is found but he met with 
it neverthelefs, and gives the following 
Fi & s- account of it under the name of P. 
Californiax. He fays, “ Another kind of pine that I found within 
a few hundred yards of the foregoing fpecies ( Pinus Benthamiana ), 
is probably the doubtful and little known Pinus Californica. 
The trees feem to be of flow growth, and do not attain any great 
height, seldom more than 25 feet, by 8 inches in diameter. 
The leaves are in bundles of three, 4^ inches long; 
cones 5 to 5^ inches long by 2 broad; the outer furface 
curved, the inner ftraight; fcales on the outer furface 
more developed, inclofing two fmall flat-winged feeds. Fig ' 6 - 
The cones are only produced on the main ftem ; when ripe they are of a light brown 
lMg - 7- colour, and ftand off at nearly a right angle; when old of a filvery grey, preffing firmly upon 
the ftem, and remain on the trees for a feries of years without opening or fhedding their feeds.” iffourn. 
Hort. Soc., ii. p. 189.) This, it will be feen, is a very exadl defcrip- 
tion of P. tuberculata , and any doubt as to its identity is removed 
by Mr Hartweg having fent fpecimens home, which were identified 
and figured by Mr Gordon in the Journal of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society , vol. iv. p. 219. 
“ The doubtful and little known Pinus Californica ” will 
probably continue doubtful and little known until its name is erafed 
from our books altogether; and the fooner this is done the better. It 
probably would have been done ere now had it not been a legacy of 
La Peroufe, poffeffing a fpecial intereft, particularly to the French, from 
being the only plant (if we may truft Loudon) that has been preferved 
of thofe fent home by the expedition under the command of that 
unfortunate navigator. In 1786 or 1787 he touched at Monterey, and 
Collignon (named Colladon by Loudon), who was gardener (or, as we fhould call it now, botanift or 
botanical colledtor) to the expedition, collected fome cones of a pine or pines growing in the neighbour¬ 
hood of that place, one of which was fent to the Mufeum of Natural Hiftory at Paris. From this cone 
the following defcription was drawn up by Profeffor Thouin, and afterwards publifhed by Loifeleur in the 
Nouveau Duhamel, vol. v. p. 243, viz., “ Leaves in twos or threes, (lender. Cones much longer than 
Fig. 8. 
Fig. 9. 
Fig. 13. 
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